The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-07-09
PERSONAL.

Walter c. Pierce has been commissioned
postmaster at North Vienna.
Hon. Charles A. Boutelle of Bangor was
at the Falmouth Hotel yesterday.
Rev. DR.. Fem will sail from New York
this morning on the steamer UmDria of the
Cunard line for few weeks absence.
Hon. Geo. f. Emery fell down fight OF
stone steps Thursday and injured himself
quite badly.
Lottie F. Hammond of Paris Hill has re-
ceiyed the degree of M. d., from the Boston
University of Medicine.
Mr.. NJ. II. Boutelle of Bangor has gone to
Minneapolis to read law in tho Office of F,
Ii. Boardman, Esq.
The First Maine Eeavy Artillery Asso-
citation will hnid.iGs annual reunion at Vinal-
haven. Alg. sd.
Nathan w. Millett of Norway was severe
ly injured by bull which he was handling
July 4th, but not killed as reported at the
time.
Rev. Carroll Harding has resigned the rec
torship of the Episcopal churches in Rock
land and Th0maston and will take up his
residence in Baltimore, Md.
Prof. Perry A. Williams. formerly of New
Portland, was recently elected principal OF
the public schools of Pelican Rapids, Mimi,
for the fifth consecutive year.
While umpiring the game of base ball at
Guilford on the Fourth, Mr.. f. d. Dearth,
the well known Bowdoin ball player, was
struck in the face by the ball and suffered a
serious fracture of his nose.
A. M. Edwards, superintendent of the
Lewiston public schools, delivered an adj
dress yesterday at the Educational convex
ton at Burlington, VT, on the subject
1.-THE School and the Citizen"
Prof Waterman T. Hewitt, native of
South Paris, now professor of German at
Cornell University, has been granted a
leave OF absencefor one year and has sailed
for Europe. He will visit the University
centers of Europe and complete work on
which he is engaged, Political and Social
Life in Germany"
Rev. j. L. Cochrane, formerly pastor Of
the Baptist church at South Paris, and now
missionary in Burmah writes to friends in
Maine that the climate of Burmah, although
SO excessively hot as to necessitate change
OF clothing three times day, agrees with
him. He has grown so fleshy as to be
obliged to have larger clothes made for him.
Rev. Il. G. Slower, formerly pastor of the
East Limington Baptist church, but now of
Belyidere, Illinois, pastor of the South
Baptist church, church of over 300 mem
bers, is having good success in his work
he baptized four and received nine into the
church June 18th, and baptized two July
Sd. He breaches to large congregations and
is held in high estimation in the city by all.
ii. l. Kimball and family of Atlanta, Ga,
are at Cape Cottage for the season. Mr..
Kimball is brother of j. NJ and c. p. KIM
ball OF this city, and a former resident of
Norway, Oxford county. He removed to
Atlanta Immediately after the close of the
war, and has since become well known
throughout the country as having been
prominently connected with nearly every
public enterprise in Georgia, and particular
ly in Atlanta. He was the builder and
proprietor of the celebrated ''Kimball
House," and the director general of the
Cotton exposition in 1881, one of the most
successful expositions ever held in the
country. He is now the inspector general of
the agency department of the Equitable
Life Insurance Company of New York.